John Dennis wrote: > Our coding standards highly recommended *not* using braces following a > conditional when there is a single expression > > http://freeipa.com/page/Coding_Style#Conditions_and_Statements > > I propose to amend this so that it is highly recommended to always use > braces. > > Discussion: > > By not using braces to form a block there is an opportunity to > introduce a bug if a programmer adds another expression and fails to > notice braces are now needed to preserve program logic. Always using > braces is simple defensive programming practice and is recommended by > many coding standards. Practical experience has shown the failure to > introduce braces when none were there previously is a common mistake > which introduces bugs often not found until much later, this can be > eliminated by always using braces, readability is not compromised. > Now I know how to change what I do not like in the standard :)
+1 -- Thank you, Dmitri Pal Engineering Manager IPA project, Red Hat Inc. ------------------------------- Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
